Apparatus for a game of matching pictures

ABSTRACT

Two sets of picture cards having different items thereon but with the items being related between the two sets, such as an animal and its cage on two different cards. A spinnable cardholder supports the two different cards in positions such that when the holder is spun, a person gets one image of the animal within its cage. A base member supports the cardholder in the spinning position, and it also has means for supporting the cardholder in a second position. Rotatable support means are provided for the base member so that the base member and its cardholders can be rotated relative to the position of the players seated therearound. Each cardholder is provided with one picture, such as the animal cage, and the other set of cards has a related picture, such as the animal which belongs to the particular cage. The object is to select the correct card, with the selection being simply by chance rather than by intelligence or skill, and the selected card is then positioned in the holder already containing the cage card, and, upon spinning the holder and due to persistence of vision, the image of the animal within the cage is then seen and that player may be a winner depending upon the relationship of the animal to the cage.

United States Patent [72] Inventor Virginia A. Charvs 142 John St., East Providence, RJ. 02914 [21] AppL No. 1 5 [22] Filed Mar. 16, 1970 [45] Patented Aug. 3, 1971 [54] APPARATUS FOR A GAME OF MATCHING PICTURE 4 Claims, 7 Drawing Figs.

[52] US. Cl 273/138 R, 272/8 D, 46/47 [51] Int. Cl A631 l/l0, A63h 1/00 [50] Field ofSearch 273/1 R, 138 R; 46/47, 64, 65, 49; 272/27 B, 8 R, 8 N, 8 D

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 183,550 10/1876 Earle 46/47 459,140 9/1891 Kronenberg. 46/47 1,393,148 10/1921 McQuarrie 46/47 X 2,857,163 10/1958 Lykes 46/64 X FOREIGN PATENTS 139,944 3/1920 Great Britain 272/8 D Primary Examiner- Anton O. Oechsle Assistant ExaminerArnold W. Kramer Attorney- Arthur J. Hansrnann ABSTRACT: Two sets of picture cards having different items thereon but with the items being related between the two sets, such as an animal and its cage on two different cards. A spinnable cardholder supports the two different cards in positions such that when the holder is spun, a person gets one image of the animal within its cage. A base member supports the cardholder in the spinning position, and it also has means for supporting the cardholder in a second position. Rotatable support means are provided for the base member so that the base member and its cardholders can be rotated relative to the position of the players seated therearound. Each cardholder is provided with one picture, such as the animal cage, and the other set of cards has a related picture, such as the animal which belongs to the particular cage. The object is to select the correct card, with the selection being simply by chance rather than by intelligence or skill, and the selected card is then positioned in the holder already containing the cage card, and, upon spinning the holder and due to persistence of vision, the image of the animal within the cage is then seen and that player may be a winner depending upon the relationship of the animal to the cage.

Patented Aug. 3, 1911 3,596,913

mum INl E N 7 OR VIRGIN/A A. CHARVES A TOPNEV pnc/ APPARATUS FOR A GAME OF MATCHING PICTURES This invention relates to an apparatus for a game of matching pictures.

The apparatus of this invention utilizes two sets of picture cards with the pictures related, such as that, upon rapidly spinning the two cards in back-to-back position, a person sees one image of the two pictures. Thus, where an animal is pictured on one card, and the animal's cage is on the other card, the rapid spinning of the two cards will show the animal within its cage. The apparatus and cards are arranged such that the player selects the cards by chance, and, upon putting the two cards into a cardholder and spinning the cardholder, the combination of the two cards in creating the one image of both pictures reveals whether or not the player has properly matched the two cards and has therefore been a winner.

Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a novel type of game or amusement device, and one which has some educational value. In accomplishing this object, it is significant that the apparatus is one having working or moving parts which are sturdy but yet lightweight and which are completely safe for a youngster to use.

Another object of this invention is to provide an apparatus for a game of matching pictures on separate sheets or cards wherein the sheets or cards can be presented in sets having different series or groups of pictures on the various sets. In accomplishing this object, the apparatus is susceptible to utilizing various sets of cards with the different pictures, and thereby having a versatile and variable type of game or games.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent upon reading the following disclosure in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a top plan view of some of the apparatus used in this game, with a part thereof broken away.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a part of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, with a portion thereof broken away.

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of the apparatus shown in 7 FIG. 1, with a portion thereof broken away.

' FIG. 4 is an edge elevational view of the part shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a left-side elevational view of a part shown in FIG. 4.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken on the line 6-6 of FIG. 1, and having a fragment of a part added thereto.

FIG. 7 is a view of a card used in this game, with a comer thereof broken away.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The shown apparatus of this invention includes the base member 10 which is rotatably supported on a pedestal or support piece 11 shown in FIG. 3. Piece 11 has an upstanding cylindrical finger 12 which is snugly received in a cylindrical opening 13 in the base member 10 and centrally of the latter. Thus it will be understood that the base member 10 is balanced and rotatable on the piece 11. Further, the piece 11 has its bottom surface 14 with a suitable extent or area so that the entire apparatus can be placed on a tabletop or floor, but

in the horizontal position.

The member 10 has a plurality of cylindrically shaped openings or pockets 16 extending vertically therein. The pockets 16 are adjacent recesses 17 formed in the upper sur- -face of the member 10. The recesses 17 are defined by abutments 18 projecting upwardly from a floor 19 at the base of each of the recesses 17.

A cardholder, generally designated 21, can be disposed in each of the recesses 17, and a sphere 22 on each holder 21 can be snugly received in each of the pockets 16, as shown at the bottom portion of FIG. 1 whereone holder 21 is shown. It will of course be understood that each of the pockets 16 and recesses 17 normally would receive a holder 21. The drawings show the holder 21 has a cylindrical stem 23 and a cylindrical stem 24, with the two stems connecting the sphere 22 to the cardholder rim 26. Particularly FIGS. 4 and 5 show the rim 26 to extend around the edge or margins of the holder 21 and to present two card-holding pockets 27 and 28. The pockets 27 and 28 are on opposite faces of the holder 21, and FIG. 1 shows a card 29 in the holder 21 and releasably retained therein by the holder rim 26. Of course the card 29 can be slid in and out of the pocket 27 which is considered to be the pocket on the upper side of the holder 21. Also, the holder 21 has a center partition 31, and another card can be slid into the holder pocket 28 on the lower side of the partition 31. That is, FIG. 1 shows the card 29 in what may be considered the pocket 27, and FIG. 2 shows the opposite side of the holder 21 of FIG. 1, and, on such opposite side, a different card 32 is shown inserted in the pocket 28. Thus each holder 21 receives two cards, and the cards are oppositely faced on each holder 21, and the cards are also oriented in the holder 21 such that the bottom of the object depicted on the card, such as the picture of the hippopotamus on card 29, has its bottom portion 33 adjacent the stem 23 of the cardholder 21. Likewise, the card 32 is inserted in the holder 21 so that the bottom portion 34 of the picture of the birdcage shown on card 32 is adjacent the holder stem 23.

Thus it will be understood that there will be one set of cards, such as the animal cards like the card 29 with different animals pictured thereon, and there will be one set of cage cards, like the card 32 with different cages pictured thereon, including the birdcage 36 in FIG. 2 and a large animal zoo cage pictured at 37 on card 38 in FIG. 7. Thus the cards 32 and 38, and like cage cards, form one set of cards. Another set of cards, such as the animal card 29, with different animals thereon, are also provided and an additional such card 39 is shown on the member 10 in a pocket 41 in member 10. In fact, the card 39 is on the top of a stack of cards of animal pictures.

It will now be understood that the game is played by having the player select one of the animal cards, such as from the stack of cards in the center of the member 10, and this selected card is placed into the holder 21 in the oriented position shown by the card 29. The player then moves the card holder 21 from its horizontally oriented or extending position shown in FIG. 1, to a vertically extending position, as will be described and as is shown in FIG. 6. The player then spins the holder 21 to see whether or not the animal card selected matches the animal cage. In the example given, the card 32 may be considered to be showing the birdcage 36, and such card would not match the card 29 having the picture of the hippopotamus 33, so the player would not have won that animal card 29. However, if the player had selected another one of the holders 21, such as one which had the card 38 and the larger cage 37 pictured thereon, and such picture of cage 37 being a hippopotamus cage, then the player would have won card 29. Of course, prior to selecting an animal card and placing it into the holder 21 and spinning the holder 21 to determine whether or not the proper holder 21 was selected to match the selected animal card, the member 10 would have been rotated about its finger support 12 so that a player would not know the identity of the holders 21 when the member 10 stopped rotating.

FIG. 6 shows that the holders 21 are moved from the horizontal position to the vertical position where the holders can be spun to present the combined visual image of the two cards in the holder 21. Thus the holder sphere 22 and stem 23 are snugly disposed within the pocket 16 to be self-supported uprightly in the pocket 16 so that a player can easily spin the holder 21 at a speed within the time interval necessary to present the two cards at the same location and alternately within the time interval of the persistence of human vision. This gives the appearance of the animal within the cage, since the cage is simply of a line drawing, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 7,

so the drawing or picture of the cage does not obscure seeing the animal.

Therefore, it will now be seen and understood that the arrangement of the holder 21 is related to the location of the pictures on each of the cards inserted in the holder 21. That is, the holder margin or edge 26 overlaps only a slight margin of each of the cards, and the pictures on all the cards are related so that the picture of the cage 37 on card 38, for instance, extends over the picture of the hippopotamus 33 on the card 29 so that the hippopotamus appears to be fully caged when the proper cards are positioned in the holder 21 and the holder is spun, as described. With four holders 21, four players can play, with each player selecting one of the holders and one of the cards from the deck of cards shown, and then spinning the holder selected to produce the single image of the two cards.

What l claim is:

lLApparatus for a game of matching pictures of two different objects, comprising two sets of separate cards having pictures of different objects thereon, the said objects on one of said sets of cards being respectively pictorially related to the said objects on the other of said sets of cards to have two of said cards from said two sets present one visual image of two of the related said objects when said two objects are both alternately quickly positioned in the same location within the time interval of the persistence of human vision, a plurality of cardholders with each having two oppositely faced pockets for respectively releasably receiving said two cards, and rotation support means on said cardholders for supporting said rapidly spinning cardholders when said cardholders are spun at a speed within said time interval to present said two cards at said same location for creating said one visual image of the said two pictures on said two cards, and a base member having a plurality of pockets for respectively receiving said rotation support means of each of saidcardholder's and supporting each of said cardholders in two different positions, with one of said two positions being the position 'ofe'ach of said cardholders during the rapid spinning thereof.

2. The subject matter of claim 1, including spinningsupport means for said base member for rotating the latter with said cardholders thereon, whereby said base member is rotated to change the positions of the said cardholders relative 'to the positions of the players seated around the apparatus.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said rotation support means consists of a stem extending on said cardholder and having a curved surface for the spinning support of said cardholder on said base member.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said pockets of said cardholders and said pictures on said cards are in relative positions to create said one visual image, said pictures on one of said sets of cards are of different animals, and said pictures on the other of said sets of cards are of different animal cages depicted as printed lines extending over an area at least the area of said pictures of the related said different animals, for creating said one visual image of an animal within its cage. 

1. Apparatus for a game of matching pictures of two different objects, comprising two sets of separate cards having pictures of different objects thereon, the said objects on one of said sets of cards being respectively pictorially related to the said objects on the other of said sets of cards to have two of said cards from said two sets present one visual image of two of the related said objects when said two objects are both alternately quickly positioned in the same location within the time interval of the persistence of human vision, a plurality of cardholders with each having two oppositely faced pockets for respectively releasably receiving said two cards, and rotation support means on said cardholders for supporting said rapidly spinning cardholders when said cardholders are spun at a speed within said time interval to present said two cards at said same location for creating said one visual image of the said two pictures on said two cards, and a base member having a plurality of pockets for respectively receiving said rotation support means of each of said cardholders and supporting each of said cardholders in two different positions, with one of said two positions being the position of each of said cardholders during the rapid spinning thereof.
 2. The subject matter of claim 1, including spinning support means for said base member for rotating the lAtter with said cardholders thereon, whereby said base member is rotated to change the positions of the said cardholders relative to the positions of the players seated around the apparatus.
 3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said rotation support means consists of a stem extending on said cardholder and having a curved surface for the spinning support of said cardholder on said base member.
 4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said pockets of said cardholders and said pictures on said cards are in relative positions to create said one visual image, said pictures on one of said sets of cards are of different animals, and said pictures on the other of said sets of cards are of different animal cages depicted as printed lines extending over an area at least the area of said pictures of the related said different animals, for creating said one visual image of an animal within its cage. 